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Landslide kills nine in Pakistani Kashmir MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan-controlled Kashmir, (AFP) Nine people from the same family were killed by a landslide in the Pakistan-administered zone of disputed Kashmir overnight, police said Friday. A mass of earth engulfed a house in Kanar Bela village in northeastern Neelum Valley late Thursday killing the nine, police officer Raja Abdul Razzaq told AFP. "The victims were fast asleep when their house, located on the slope of a mountain, was struck by the landslide," he said, adding two other people had been pulled alive from the wreckage. Those killed included three infants, two teenagers, an elderly man, his brother and his wife and their 35-year-old daughter, he said. The high-altitude valley has been subject to heavy rains for several days, he said. Neelum Valley runs along the heavily militarized Line of Control which separates the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir between nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan. |
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